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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:19:20 -0800
From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: Ingo's O(1) scheduler vs. wait_init_idle
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:47:15AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >> I was trying to test this in my 8 way NUMA box, but this patch seems
> >> to have lost half of the wait_init_idle fix that I put in a while
> >> back. [...]

We had this same trouble on 4 to 12 way Itanium machines, but finally
made them boot using a variation of your fix.  That was with J7.  It
looks like the boot cpu gets stuck waiting for wait_init_idle to
clear.  We'll try to send out a patch on Monday.

Thanks,
Jesse
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